Science in Court Society

Giovan Battista Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (Turin, 1585)

Benedetti: Life, Work, Contexts

Introduction

1 Prosopography

2 The Subalpine Environment

3 Structure of the Book and Main Issues

4 Epistemology

5 Mechanics

6 Astronomy

7 Foundations of Physics

Concluding Remarks

References

A Facsimile of Giovanni Battista de Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum, et physicarum liber (Turin 1585)